and rich it will have a good yield. we can provide for our families as well as for many people here in our neighborhood. but we know in which places there are gold plains. we go there and it worked i'm going to on title land which isn't enough to not have belongs to the multinationals. illegal mines sprout up everywhere each week. the citizens who have succumbed to gold rush fever quickly try to exploit the high prices. here no one has titles to the land. the entire region belongs to grand colombia gold that recently bought from tino gold mines which went bankrupt. all the large mines of the area and the processing facilities were sold by the

government to the canadian multinational for just two hundred million dollars. you know with frontino gold mines here and sit as proven gold reserves of over nine hundred thousand ounces of supply nine hundred thousand ounces by today's price of gold at the let's say at one thousand five hundred dollars to me going to that would be an astronomical amount you know because i can't get this multiplication out of my mind. and then along comes the government of alviro you are e bay velez who donates the mines at the humiliating price of two hundred million dollars this is truly scandalous. your blog i will explain it to you sometimes my wife buys shoes which she thinks are cheap and i think are expensive. so you must give numbers and explain what is cheap in comparison to other mines globally. how much they were bought for with how many reserves etc one.

thing you know they don't produce anything only opinions not facts nor. the union says that the sale was illegal it claims that all the property of frontino was conceded in writing to the thousands of workers of the company by the former bosses who in this way paid salaries pensions and insurance in kind the list though is that. the state is selling something it doesn't own in colombia we call this villainy and overt. but if they can say that elvis presley lives that charlemagne was a jew whatever they like but i have a title and that's the difference. good move with. a government supports foreign investment of but. so much so that the canadian multinational made a former colombian minister of foreign affairs the company's president.

is this something bad is there some gap in the colombian legal system which doesn't allow a member of government to work. she might have inside information. that's not certain that the president of the company was minister of foreign affairs she doesn't have any knowledge of mental energy of course she is learning a lot quickly because she is smart when she left the aruban government. and another meter where the same to her. fellow. guerrillas are active. so org. group of former paramilitaries was. finally the envy ghetto office is also in operation here it is

a drug cartel funded after the death of popular escobar by his men it is a war of all against all for territorial control the more territory controlled the more mines exploited this is the seventeen gang members of the restaurant hearst's were killed today in the battle with foreign insulter province up there thirty to set the battle was to claim areas in the mountains owner of the aren't you a municipality when i meant that you're also going to see feel that he. goal is not evidence substance that it's legal. is that attracts illegal groups the last guy that is. left out of the new one during money through gold is easy it has got you riskless. the illegals buy gold or minus a door to you if you want to and then they take it to the municipality and get it

legalized the number of as legal merchandise it brings profits to the local authorities which will be divided among the politicians and thus there will be support from the municipality. all the ordinary gold miners must pay protection to the armed groups active here in order to work. fear keeps everyone silent in suburbia they have a saying flies don't enter into closed mouth. i've heard that regular miners must pay protection to all the armed groups active here is that correct. moment that you know at the moment i don't know anything about that no one has come to me and i don't know. you know see. those munitions we give two million a month to fark he says then there is also the envy god office the rest of us the rojas we're going to use and organized crime i restore the restaurant to the

end we got office sealion going up or we pay protection with a percentage of the gold you know to get on board one panel he or she would own as if they were also partners in the mine is anything left over i don't care something is left here not much but something this is how we've come to operate on one hundred people because otherwise it would be impossible to work. because either they will make you leave people in a city not almighty you or your family one kid or whoever they want. still are messed up if the mind is poor they don't care that much as you remain a study can stand but if the man is rich with good production this thing really kind of when they visit you all the time did you know and get involved in your business if you. pot only a few of their own profit and as well as their organizations national not because

in this area enormous amounts of money are exchanged intentionally going to deploy economic power leads to answer. system has come to establish themselves permanently in the area. the government accuses the small town miners are fueling the bloody civil war. president santos this is another serious reason to eliminate them over the. every day the secret services of the stage that you along with the ministry of mines of energy as you know sweep the country. so that this activity doesn't fuel the conflict i mean i mean you know you know people are going to you know in order to prevent it's one again as we have done up to now. a special police unit is in charge of hunting down the illegal gold miners. poor peasants watch

helicopters landing in the middle of nowhere. noise it's not that we the small miners fund the illegal groups as the government says you know in order to protect our lives our families and to work in peace. but we are forced to pay protection to illegal groups. because the state doesn't protect us just the police and security forces did their job we wouldn't be obliged to pay for protection. so those. here they do the opposite they fight as they search for us. and throw us off our own land so they can surrender it all to the in multi-nationals.

or ben takes the or which comes out of the mine. i'm to the mills to get it pulverized. the cylinders contain metal spheres. cyanide is added to the earth as this helps extract the gold. cyanide is especially toxic and in large concentrations lethal. it was used in the nazi gas chambers. peddler gerbils and eva brown all committed suicide with the substance during the cold war period both the us and the u.s.s.r. stockpiled it in their chemical arsenals. the solution ends up on this mechanical table which with its slope and movement separates the gold from the earth. and at the moment the yellow is gold right now it's still

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and segovia all the gold miners use mercury to make the process faster and easier. in every mill we throw in this amount of mercury look around madonna some of us will gather the gold we only put this much in each mill come and see how i will do this i thought i meant that i thought that i'm going all in. the book about a mile away. mercury is especially toxic to the environment and to humans. damage is the brain and central nervous system i was

thank i gather is a what's left of the process in a small container i mercury has the property of dissolving and amalgamating with gold i was stopped by the mercury captures the gold the monoplane the only thing left for his eco to do is now to gather it up into a cloth and strain it i was i wonder how much is this gold worth i i don't mind i live by going to this is worth twelve million or four thousand seven hundred fifty euros i.

every friday rabanne gathers the sediment from the whole week and cleans a carefully for hours. i. this is the result. all you need to do now is to drive. those two hundred grams. how much earth does it take to produce this amount. and

all of them. never thought about it but i estimate fifty tons. the only thing left to do is to get to the gold shop of donya myra down in town. today the two hundred grams were sold for ten million pesos or about three thousand nine hundred euros nowadays ruben ennis thirty eight partners are earning more than ever. in order to sell the gold izzy kill needs to first get rid of the mercury which is stuck to the precious metal. they must burn it off and there are dozens of little

shops in the center of town which do that i. i mercury is released into the atmosphere when burned and when it rains it falls on to homes fields rivers and lakes. so go via is the town most polluted by mercury in the world according to the world health organization with measurements up to one thousand times above acceptable levels. but it's a very dangerous job. the man everyone who works with mercury must get treatment but that you know because you have mercury in your system and my brother has it and must keep on getting

treatment. it's the easiest process for getting the gold out of that into. them but everything else is much more difficult. ya don't know if there's another method you won't find it here here mercury is used by the ton of other. there's already an ecological catastrophe. which was triggered by small scale metallurgy. also. we have the greatest concentrations of your accurate nor what is not at all logical. is the alternative proposed by this government. and generally by the governments of latin america to have large organized

responsible mining companies which are on the stock market that there is no such thing yet in a colombian already has large scale metallurgy and our analyses all showed an enormous like a responsibility. colombia pollute the environment. no gran colombia pollutes the environment twenty to thirty times less than the average illegal miner can get. you know a little bit in them we have some pollution like all companies you know which however is within the parameters of colombian laws and international ones is. there are they are they will be. the effluent from the ground colombia gold factory along with the waste of

a small binders falls into a small ravine which is so toxic that it is acquired name everyone calls it cyanide ravine. on its banks gold diggers process the waste one more time trying to find gold in the poison waters nor in the dangers of. that i mean if the mine works we make money with your handle. this work has always taken place here. and a lot of people live off this one to retain extracting gold i could i would wind up either. and is there gold there. naturally if there wasn't we wouldn't work the for having a wonderful trip and they work it again and again and there's always gold left but

even what we throw away contains gold. so what happens in the cyanide ravine isn't pollution that. this pollution. since cyanide falls into her veins it's bullish. but it's profit to be profitable. should i make them or my we know it damaging the environment but this is how we end our bread that. i. am i.

despite the reactions of the citizens of my motto the government is planning to relocate them in order to open the way form a doro new open pit mine. the justification for this used by the government is a landslide which took place in two thousand and six it claims of the population is in a high danger zone which means they must be moved to a safer area. despite the fact of state services confirmed of the situation is reversible if interventions are made to the mountain in nearby al johnno the government is already building a hospital modern school compound and houses for the new residents. the door has stated that it will help fund the building program. to mco the go ahead of us we must talk to the women and tell them that in your new house you have a washer and dryer and you don't need to go to the ravine to wash the clothes so

they can have roads a good hospital get a place to study. and the work it all could do the work is crucial we will create many jobs they're never going to win but not everyone will have ork nobody will give work to many people who are. great. when spanish conquistadores arrived in colombia in the sixteenth century they felt they had found the mythical el dorado. in amazement they bore witness to a ritual at play quite heavy to near modern day bogota in which the leader of the

movie sky was naked and covered with gold dust through enormous amounts of gold into the water as an offering to the gods. the hunt for the new eldorado is in full swing. you know this year someone once said to us in a knowing way that we had seen it like having such a rich land weeks and in the past and i think it was the colonizers who wanted to take our fertile land i leave our book with the even a little land we still have legend element and as it is a target of the multinational his local is by this or this tiny piece of land we. i let it slip that in that we have from head to defend without a lot of another time and on this we have a very clear. culture

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